Wedding season is officially upon us! Are you attending any weddings this year? Or perhaps you’re planning one, or helping the bride to be make some choices? I’ve got a fun and easy idea for the paper addicts out there: make white paper lanterns, adorned with sweet vellum quotes! They’re a beautiful addition to a bridal shower, rehearsal dinner, wedding reception, or any occasion along the way.

Step 1. Die-cut your pieces for the lantern, and choose which quotes you want to appear inside. Because all the quotes are different (and different shapes, sizes, and messages) you will find that only about a third of them fit the window of this particular die exactly.

Step 2. Cut your vellum to fit, and glue it into the lantern panels.

Step 3. Fold and assemble each lantern. Tip: if you’re struggling to keep wet glue held together long enough for it to bond, try using an easily-removable tape, like washi tape, to hold the seams together while they dry! Just be extra-careful when removing the tape.

Step 4. Light it up! Switch LED candles on (please, please don’t attempt to use real candles in paper lanterns) and place them on the lantern bases. The lanterns just slip over the top.

The vellum quotes make all the difference. I especially love this one: you warm my heart. It’s like it was made to be lit up!

Step 1: Use an electronic cutting maching to cut out a sunglasses card. To make a shape into a card you should: Mirror the image above the original and then weld the top edges together.

Technique Tip: Core’dinations cardstock cuts beautifully on the Silhouette Cameo. If you notice in my picture below my edges are a little rough! To avoid that make sure to do the following settings: Set your blade at 4 (I had it set at 2 here before I realized it was too late), your speed at 3, thickness at 33, and set it to Double-Cut. This will give you a clean cut. But if you goof up like me and forget to change your blade to the right setting, a little sanding with our Sand-it Gadget will take care of the rough edges!

Step 2: Use the lens space to trace and cut out some lenses on the Metallic Silver paper. Cut them out and emboss them.

Step 3: Add the lenses to the card and attach a sentiment at the top. I used this cut file for my sentiment.

Step 4: Add some finishing touches, a couple of stars, some white outlining, and you are done!

I love the metallic trend! and it’s even better, when you can distress the finish. The new Tim Holtz Kraft Core Metallic Collection is amazing. I’ve created a trendy bee canvas to show you just how much fun you can have creating with this new paper.

Step 1. Cut strips of the copper paper 7 3/4″ x 1 1/2″ long. Emboss the paper. Since the paper is longer than the embossing folder, place the folder on the un-embossed end of the paper, line the design up and run through the machine again to emboss the full strip.

Step 2. Distress the raised areas with the Sand-it Gadget. This will reveal the kraft core.

Step 3. Add a layer of black slightly wider to the back of the embossed strip. Distress the edges with a tool or scissors.

Step 4. With strong double sided tape, attach to the canvas.

Step 5. Die cut and emboss the bee using the gold paper. Distress the raised areas with the Sand-it Gadget.

Step 6. Ink over the sanded areas with black ink.

Step 7. Use foam adhesives to mount the bee on the canvas.

This was a quick and stylish project to make. Wouldn’t you Bee Happy to give it a try?

Step 3: Cut out a two inch circle from your scrap cardstock. Fold it in half and then half again and then half one more time. This will give you 8 lines to use as guidelines for where to place your triangles.

Step 4: Glue the triangles to your circle and then attach that to the back of your rosette.

Step 5: Punch a 1 1/2 inch orange circle and add that to the front of your rosette. Add googly eyes and a smile. Glue it onto your water bottle (wrap the bottle in white paper if the label is hideous)

Step 6: Attach a Core Tag with an appropriate Vellum Sentiment.

And there you have it! A nice and simple but fun party favor to send home with your guests!

Hi friends! Adrianne here with you today to share how to make glass tile necklaces with your favorite scrapbook papers and small dies, so you can design your own custom jewelry for yourself and for gift-giving!

Step 1. Cut your base papers to 1″ square. Die-cut your shape and letter accents from silver foil card stock, and lay them out to determine the arrangement. For intricate designs, or designs that need to line up (like numbers and initials), you can also use a thin layer of Mod Podge to glue them into place to be sure they don’t slip around.

Step 2. Add a large drop of Mod Podge to the top of your paper square. Place the glass tile on top, pressing the Mod Podge all the way out to each edge of the tile for a secure mount.

Step 3. Use a craft squeegee on the backside of the tile, over the paper, to squeeze out the excess Mod Podge and ensure a tight seal. This can get a little bit messy, and you may get Mod Podge on the edges of your glass tile – but don’t worry! Wipe away any large drops, but a thin coat of Mod Podge can be easily cleaned off the tile once it’s dry.

Add a finishing coat of Mod Podge to the backside of the paper to seal it well.

Step 4. Allow the tile to dry (this may take an hour, as the card stock is quite thick). Then, add a drop of metal glue to the pad of a jewelry bail, and glue it to the backside of the tile. Allow the bails to dry for several hours (or overnight).

Step 5. If you are using bulk chain like I did, you’ll need to add a clasp to the chain before you’re able to wear the necklace. (If you’re using a pre-assembled chain, you can skip this step and simply string the tiles on the chains.) Twist open a jump ring, and attach both the end of the chain, and the ring of the clasp to it. Twist it closed again with your pliers. On the opposite end of the chain, attach a jump ring so that you can clasp the necklace closed.

Step 6. Finally, just string the tiles onto chains, and they’re ready for wear or for gift-giving! They’re great personal pieces that can sport initials, player numbers, or pretty spring themes like butterflies. Any small shapes are pretty encased in glass for this project!

Ever since I got my hands on the various pieces from the Party Mixers line, there has been no turning back. We’ve shared a variety of ideas with you on how to use them in paper crafting already, today I am going to show you how fabulous they work for a layout!

Step 1: Cut your title out using a cut file (You Are My Sunshine) and use the negative space of your white cardstock. Back it with different cardstocks from the Brights paper pad. Matte your picture and also add that to the base.

Technique Tip: Core’dinations cardstock cuts great on the Silhouette Cameo. Set your blade at 4, speed at 3, thickness at 33, and set it to double cut. That has worked every time for me – even with the textured cardstock!

Step 2: Start layering Paper Pops to create interest behind and around the picture. Top with a Rosette that you will turn into a sunshine. You can use foam adhesive behind some of them and outline the pops or with black if you want to add some extra pop them!

Step 3: Do long stitches from the sun outward to look like sun rays.

Step 4: Add a tag under the picture, fabric tape to the top and bottom of the layout, and enamel dots throughout as your finishing touch.